>> reporter: it was just after-month when the "the dark knight" moved from fiction to reality. >> sound like madness. we were watching a scene from the movie. it was a shootout scene. guns were firing. then loud bangs came from the right of the theater. smoke took over. >> reporter: witnesses say a man wearing a helmet, bullet proof vest and body armor burst through an exit door near the movie screen and tossed two smoke canisters in to the packed theater. >> i guess it was a gas canister. got harder to breathe. in less than two skonz of it going off gun shots started happening. >> reporter: the gunman identified by investigators as 24-year-old james homes fired one shot into the air then turned his weapons on the crowd. >> there were women and children screaming. it was terrifying. >> reporter: when the chaos and killing ended, 12 people were dead. 59 injured. >> most of the injuries were

again gunshot wounds. they appear to be certainly of high caliber. >> reporter: holmes was armed with an assault weapon and two high caliber pistols. he surrendered without putting up a fight warning officers his apartment was bobby trapped with explosives. >> chemical elements and incendiary elements, linked together with wires. as a layman something i've never seen before. >> as the investigation continues at his apartment and theater holmes family in san diego has released a written statement which says in part our hearts go out to those who were involved in this tragedy and to the families and friends of those involved. the faces of those lost in the shooting are coming to light now. people like jessica ghawi, an aspiring sports kachter recently moved from san antonio, texas to denver. so many struggling like investigators here to understand how and why it happened. jay gray, nbc news, aurora, colorado.

>> president obama and mitt romney both had campaign rallies scheduled for today. they appeared as not rallies only briefly and only to comment on the shooting. >> if there's anything to take way from this tragedy it's the reminder that life is very fragile. our time here is limited and it is precious. and what matters at the end of the day is not the small things. it's not the trivial things which so often consume us and our daily lives. ultimately it's how we choose to treat one another. and how we love one another. >> this is a time for each of us to look into our hearts and remember how much we love one another. and how much we love and how much we care for our great country. there's so much love and goodness in the heart of america. >> mitt romney's rally in new hampshire was his only scheduled event today. president obama cut short his

visit to florida. and returned to the white house. he also ordered the federal government to lower all american flags to half-staff as a mark of respect for the shooting victims. if you're planning to go to the movies tonight or this weekend you can expect to see extra police officers around. local police departments are beefing up patrols as a precaution against possible copycat crimes. news 4 steve wilkos is at the regal theater in germantown with more on security measures and reaction from people who didn't let the shooting keep them way from theaters today. >> reporter: it's obvious that no one attending this movie isn't aware of what happened in colorado. these folks know about that incident and are considering that as they are thinking about whether they should purchase a ticket today. i can tell you we've seen a steady stream of folks going into the theater and montgomery police say they will be standing by to make sure those folks feel comfortable. >> i want tickets for "the dark knight." >> reporter: after tragic

massacre at a "dark knight" premier, movie goers in our area are weighing what to do. go to the movies or stay home? >> it's really scary. >> reporter: susan says it's a question she asked herself. >> i did do a double take of should we be doing this but i didn't want to alarm my kids and say too much, and, you know, just hope for nobody doing this again. >> you can hear the conversations at the kitchen table this morning about, you know, i was thinking about going to that movie this "weekend now" i wonder i should. >> reporter: montgomery county's police chief said his department is doing their part toez some people's fears by increasing patrols around the county's movie theaters. >> we had no threats, no indication of any issues in this area. we're just trying to get out ahead of it. >> i think it's sad that violence is such a part of today's culture. >> reporter: steven fisher say he and his grandsons were in pittsburgh for part of the

movie's production and he wouldn't miss them having a chance to see it premier today. >> my daughter, this guy's mother said that she was really concerned and didn't think a lot of people were going to go to the show because they were nervous but i hope people don't take that position. i mean we got to work through those things and just live with the society as it is today. >> reporter: now "the dark knight" is a major movie expected to make a lot of movie and the movie industry has been depending on it to do just that. so on the other end of this what will it mean for ticket sales? everything that has happened here? we talked with a local theater about that and they will give their take on this coming up in a live report at 6:00. reporting live in germantown, i'm steve wilkos, news 4. >> stay with news 4 and nbc news for continuing coverage of the mass shooting today. nbc's pete williams will joins in a few minutes. he's got new details on the gunman. brian williams will anchor live from colorado for "nightly news"

this evening and there will be a special "dateline" tonight on nbc. now to the other big story, our weather. again, there are more storms on the radar. veronica johnson is tracking more rain tonight. veronica, is this going to be more wild weather? >> not going to be as bad as it was last night but really any rain on top of some of those spots that had the flooding last night, just going to make it worse. in fact the flash flood watch really covers the entire viewing area until 11:00 p.m. the national weather service issuing this again until 11:00 p.m. maybe extend up to midnight or 1:00 a.m. that's when i'm seeing the line in west virginia come through. 8:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. some isolated heavy rain with thunderstorms and that means flooding is possible again. so it's not going to take much for some of the streams and creeks to over flow their banks. now does it took bad here when you look at storm 4 radar. showers coming into d.c.

more zeeltd, moderate rain west of winchester. consume in around fairfax, manassas, montgomery county. look at the line west of us. that's going to be coming in after 8:00. you can see there is some thunder with it but not nearly as fierce as the one last night. again some isolated storms coming our way for the overnight period that could lead to some flooding starting at about 8:00 p.m. and running right until 1:00 a.m. our temperatures again on the cool side, right now we're in the upper 70s. take a look at your weekend forecast coming up in a few. >> some people who live in northwest washington are hoping to get through the rain this evening without any new trouble. three times in the past week and a half many had their homes flooded because of severe weather and heavy rain. derrick ward joins us live from the bloomingdale neighborhood with more. >> reporter: you know, a big part of the problem here and other parts of the city is the combined sewer system that runs beneath the district especially in places where the infrastructure is older like here in bloomingdale where it

dates back to the mid-1800s. there's a fix under way. massive infrastructure project that won't to be done until 2025. imagine how many flash floods these folks will endure in the interim. as far as the past few days, folks here in bloomingdale said they had their fair share of flooding. when the forecast calls for rain especially flash flooding, folks in the boomingdale section of northwest get a chill. >> the flooding comes up or the water comes up through the toilet and bath tubs in the basements and that water is actually raw sewage. >> reporter: no stranger to floods here. >> last night, the day before maybe five days before that there was a big flood, i think it was 2001 or some time during then. >> reporter: but three times in the last eight days? what's up with that? >> we're not sure. >> reporter: d.c.'s water

general manager said they are examining every inch of sewer line. in some case as worker does it firsthand. they are also cleaning out catch basins but so far there's nothing telling them why there's been so many floods lately. they have come up with a short term solution, back flow preventers. >> a technology that keeps sewage from going back up a pipe when there's too much flow and we'll work with our customers. >> reporter: that will take time too and in the mean time for bloomingdale they can only prime vice and hope the sewer water doesn't rise again. >> it cause as lot of trouble. >> reporter: back live here you're looking up second street here in northwest not far from where we are now. they are distributing sand bags in this neighborhood. they are doing it mainly at rfk stadium. they brought some to this neighborhood so these folks can specifically get their sand bags easily because guess what? it's already raining. we're live in northwest. back to you.

>> thanks. weekend track work scheduled for all five lines of metro starting at 10:00 tonight. trains will travel through the medical center and bethesda stations but won't stop there. trains are single tracking between van dorn and franconia springfield and between the east and wells falls church and green line tweet ft. totten and prince george's plaza. a lot more still ahead. our coverage of the massacre at the movies continues. the suspect is from san diego. we'll gate live report from his home town at 5:30. >> here from the council member calling for the mayor

one of the most severe critics of d.c. mayor vincent

gray called for gray to resign in wake of the campaign scandal. he also took himself out of any race to replace the mayor. tom sherwood is here with the latest on this story. >> reporter: some people thought he was criticizing gray to make his own race for mayor. now that's off the table. on thursday mayor vincent gray was being pursued by reporters after a "the washington post" poll showed 54% of d.c. citizens want him to resign because of scandal. gray insists he's doing his job and will leave the scandal to the courts. on the wamu politics hour friday d.c. council member, the first to call last week for gray to resign said gray has lost his ability to lead even though he hasn't been formally charged. >> think he knew. i think knows he knows. i think many people know it's reflected in the polls, i think he lost his legitimacy to govern in light of a compromised

election. >> reporter: he said he believes gray may have been caught up with scandal that overtook the campaign. >> some supporters of gray have complained that he wants to run for mayor but friday he took himself out of any special election for mayor should gray resign. >> there was a time to be very honest i was seriously contemplating and would have loved to be mayor and i think you have to have a certain fire in the belly but i don't want it as much as the others. >> reporter: he said he expects more guilty pleas and convictions in the campaign scandal case. jim. >> tom sherwood, thank you. >> veronica is here more about our weather. rain will be the bigger issue this time more so than the wind and lightning. >> exactly. we're watching this line off to the west. still i think for the evening if you're going out it's the big umbrella and golf size umbrella that you're going to need because we could see moderate and more heavy rain come our way this evening. of course we got quite a bit over the last 24 even 48 hours

out there today on the cool dreary side of things. your temperatures today just in the 70s, making it one of the coolest days that we've had in more than a month. wow. after a high temperature of 101 on tuesday. here's a look at some of the rainfall totals over the last 24 hours. anywhere you see the dark green, the yellow, mainly d.c., areas to the north and east. anywhere from two to three to four inches of rain. take a look at the totals here. baltimore maryland, 3.25 inches of rain. ocean city over four inches of rain. annapolis maryland over half. gaithersburg, maryland, montgomery county, .78 inch of rain. what we're left after these showers and waves of rain mainly light rain moving through today. we're left with this. montgomery county south of gaithersburg, fairfax towards charles county moving east into prince george's county. more ragged showers down to the south and west of us.

a stronger line that's just now getting into west virginia. but not as fierce as it was yesterday. starting to break up. still some pockets of embedded thunderstorms and that means a chance to get some isolated heavy rain. starting about 8:00 and running up to midnight to 1:00 a.m. in the morning. 77 degrees. cool. showery and northeast wind too. 16 miles per hour. almost need a jacket out there this evening. by midnight, 11:00 p.m. drop to 75, 74 degrees. tomorrow morning right in town we'll be starting out in the low 70s. still some wet weather around and in fact a little cool on the north side of this front. so getting up to gaithersburg, get up to areas around frederick and even into northern fauquier county, chilly tomorrow morning. this weather front sticks around us through the weekend. it depends on where it sets up tomorrow afternoon. right now, though, it looks like it will be south of d.c., running right through southern maryland and the northern neck so around those areas could see

some more isolated thunderstorms for saturday afternoon after the morning showers. then on sunday again the potential for some storms south, some rain builds up right around the mountains and i-81. just a slight chance for showers on sunday and our best day out of the weekend. evening occasional heavy rains coming in, 70 to 78 degrees with a southwest wind at 5 miles per hour. for tomorrow morning a cooler start for us. even a little muggy too before we see that humidity climb during the afternoon. the showers that we'll have back to small umbrella or just really a rain jacket if you're heading out. 66 to 72 degrees for tomorrow afternoon. 77 to 81. another cool day and then sunday i think the better day out of weekend highs in the mid-80s and highs in the low 90s the first part of next week. a lot of folks trying to get to the beach. all right. determining which size umbrella to takes sounds a whole lot better than take cover immediately. >> so true.

>> put that in perspective, i guess. >> we want to return our attention now the tragedy in colorado. the suspect there had four guns on him including a shotgun and a rifle. nbc news pete williams joins us. pete, we one you have new details about the shooter's appearance. >> reporter: well, you know, this has been rumored about since the police chief ray kelly mentioned this. there's a connection because you a errora, colorado police chief worked in the new york police department and has many friends there, and it's apparently true that the shooting suspect james holmes had dyed his hair red and told the aurora police when he was arrested this morning he was the joker, you know, what that means with the larger significance of that is i don't have the slightest idea. it remains a total mystery about why he, why he did this, what the motive was. there's no good answer to that. >> guy was pretty heavily armed and too early to know the answer

to this question, how did he get the guns and were they legal? >> reporter: yes they were all purchased legally, all in the colorado area. three separate gun stores, all local stores of national chains. he didn't buy them until very recently. he bought the first of them in may and the last of them one of the two hand guns only two weeks ago. so it would appear from that that he was planning this at least as far back as may. >> did he go through all the required checks and everything? >> reporter: oh, yes. he's no criminal record whatsoever. the aurora, colorado police say his only connection to them was a speeding ticket last year. but other than that he had no prior convictions, he was not a felon, didn't have any of the other disqualifying factors in his background and purchased these weapons legally all very recently. colorado is not, you know, doesn't that have loosest handgun or gun control laws in the nation but as a western

state there aren't many restrictions. the most controversial of the weapons he bought, a rifle, ar-15 type rifle that can take a high capacity ammunition clip sometimes called assault weapons although that's a loaded term. that was legal to buy in colorado, and is legal to buy in all but five states, california and four northeastern states, new york, new jersey, connecticut and massachusetts. >> pete, all eyes and we just showed some video there of that truck ladder going up to his apartment are on his apartment. what happens if they can't get inside his individual apartment? >> reporter: well, you know, that is a very difficult question because there's several reasons they want to get inside. they want to disarm it and they want to preserve evidence. this is all part of the case they want to build and also they want to look at his computer, papers to see what else they can learn about when he started planning this, why he did it, those are -- they believe those answers are in there. but ate jumble of wires and bottles with liquids in them and

powders and fireworks and ammunition and if they can't figure out how to do this -- i mean one of the options they discussed is declaring the building a loss and blowing it up. thing to do but it would be the last option if they can't sort out that puzzle. >> an apartment building with other residents that would be affected. >> of course. pete williams, thanks for the updated information. still a lot to learn about this whole situation. >> when we come back at news 4 at 5:00 we'll head live to san diego the shooter's home town. inner loop timely drill in prince george's county where officers hold a mass shooting dri drill. pat collins has that story. >> people yelling, screaming. utter chaos. a man from virginia in the

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>> time now for this week's installment of in case you missed it. >> mascots, high flying performances and baseball catches. dan hellie fills us in. >> in case you missed it, here's a mascot that should have been pulled over for speeding. norfolk tides mascot rip tide going way too fast. good thing that suit has all the padding. no injuries and the show went on. maybe they need speed limit signs on the warning track. the olympics start one week from today and from what we've seen thus far it's going to be quite a spectacle. check out the new york based performers on the london eye. it was a series of gorilla performances all over london

that included bungie dives. the 36 member troop getting the crowd fired up for next friday's opening ceremonies, of course right here on nbc 4. and one of the biggest stars of these olympics soccer star david beckham who is doing his usual bend it like beckham routine for the los angeles galaxy against the portland timbers from 35 yards out he curls it just inside the post. no wonder he's one of the biggest stars in great britain. some great baseball catches coming this week starting with a fan in toronto. the ball bounces into the stands and as he comes down the aisle the fan catches the ball between his legs carrying food too. oh, my goodness. the guy with the glove can't compete and helps him by removing the ball. a little uncomfortable but a great play nonetheless. on the field the major league catch of the week goes the

yankees curtis granderson. they are playing the angels and rookie sensation mike trout gets into one. granderson says not so fast my friend. maybe the best major league catch the year so far. to aaa now where the phillies center-fielder james made an incredible play to rob a home run. james scales the center-field wall to get the moonshot. he apparently lost his glove over the fence and somehow came down with the ball in his bare right hand for out the. in case you missed it you've now seen it all. nice catch. coming up in our next half hour the suspect in a deadly movie theater shooting grew up in san diego.

. our top story tonight, 12 people are dead, 59 others wounded in a mass shooting inside a movie theater in aurora, colorado. police arrested the gunman, 24-year-old james holmes about a minute after the first 911 phone calls. he even dyed his hair the color red like the joker in the movie "the dark knight rises." officers are trying to get in his apartment said to be bobby trapped. he wore body armor and used an assault rifle, a shotgun and glock handgun. witnesses described the scene in the theater. >> james egan holmes was a graduate student. he was originally from san diego where his parents still live. we go outside of the home of his mother in san diego tonight. christine, what's the situation there? >> reporter: good evening to you. we can tell you as you mentioned

the suspect did indeed spend a great deal of his life right here in suburban san diego. this is his mother's home. a lot of cars are here. intense media presence as well. all of the world is watching over this situation. we talked with high school friends of james today. they tell us that and he was quiet and a normal kid, certainly not someone they would expect to be behind such a horrible crime. james holmes graduated from westview high school in san diego in 2006. he lived just a few blocks away from school where a long time neighbor today remembers him as quiet and very smart. >> i feel so bad for his parents. they are just really nice folk, i feel terrible for these victims and my feeling is what happened? >> reporter: another neighbor says the holmes family was nice and outgoing. >> it breaks my heart because they are lovely parents. >> reporter: holmes left san diego after high school. university confirms holmes grad

dwatd a neuroscience agree in 2010. holmes mother still lives in the family home. she called police to the home after reporters first arrived early this morning. holmes father robert threat home escorted by police. >> as you can understand the holmes family is very upset about all of this. it's a tragic event and it's taken everyone by surprised. >> reporter: the family issued a statement asking for privacy. our hearts go out to those who were involved in this tragedy. our family is cooperating with authorities both in san diego and aurora. we're still trying to process this information and we appreciate that people will respect our privacy. >> reporter: another friend actually talked to us today and said that they felt he was a happy and smiling kid usually when he was in high school here in suburban san diego. just a moment here i want to show you all the media presence and all the family friends gathering at this home. we're told arlene, james' mother is still indeed inside and has no plans to couldn't. we asked for a spokesperson from the family to talk with us.

at this point they have no comment. now back to you. >> thank you. the tragedy in colorado now has law enforcement officials across the country on high alert and it turns out prince george's county police were already preparing to train for a mass shooting today. pat collins has our report. >> reporter: a chilling coincidence, a mass shooting drill by prince george's county police hours after the mass shooting at that movie theater in colorado. now they planned this for months but today it takes on a whole new meaning. >> we thought it was important on the heels of the tragedy in colorado to demonstrate to our community that we do have policies, procedures in place. >> reporter: the scenario. gunmen on the loose at a high school in upper marlboro. they had pretend victims. real snipers and s.w.a.t. team specialist, bomb squad, k-9s and

a command center at the ready. they have some unique equipment. they call this the peacekeeper. this is where the s.w.a.t. team rides. it's not only bullet proof, it's armor piercing proof. and on top a unique device they call it the patriot. it allows the s.w.a.t. team to get up and make an entry way upstairs. this is how police respond to a mass shooting crisis but the chief says positioning police in strategic places can sometimes prevent these attacks. >> a person who is determined to do harm to society, for example, if he or she encounters police, a police presence at a shopping center, at a school, then he or she is more than likely going to go somewhere else. >> reporter: the chief says if we stay alert and call in suspicious activity we can help

as well. >> people just human nature choose not to act on their suspicions for fear of being wrong. what we would like to tell our citizens it's okay if your suspicions are off base let us verify your suspicion. >> reporter: the mass shooting response team in prince george's county. they have sophisticated tools. they have hours of training. they have action plans. plans they hope they never have to use. in upper marlboro, pat collin, news 4. >> ahead tonight on news 4 at 5:00, limiting the number of children daycares can watch in fairfax county. >> a long time investigators joins us to break down what happened in colorado. >> i'm liz crenshaw. should you drive with your flashing hazard lights on during a thunderstorm? that's

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in all our stormy weather should you drive with your hazard lights on during a big thunderstorm. how do you get rid of the mildew smell in towels and wash cloths. >> driving with your hazard lights on or head lights on are important. >> our first question comes in from connie in springfield, virginia. she wants to know should you drive with your flashing hazard lights on during inclement weather such as severe thunderstorms. >> we contacted several jurisdictions to get this answer. it turns out drivers are normally supposed to turn on their head lights fully on instead of using those flashing hazard lights during severe weather. virginia state police say a driver should keep head lights constantly lit when using their windshield wipers to improve visibility. maryland law also requires drivers to turn on their head

lights whenever their windshield wipers are in use and in times of inclement weather. in d.c. hazard lights should only be used during a traffic hazard that requires unusual care in overtaking or passing. not typical to drive with thats on, definitely your head lights. >> that wiper rule i like that one. next question comes from an e-mail and a viewer named leon. he wants to know how to prevent that mildew smell coming out of your towels and wash cloths. >> we spoke with the folks of the american cleaning institute for the answer. i want says don't take any short cuts when it comes to washing your towels. make sure you're following the manufacturer's directions exactly. another tip check your towels are 100% dry before putting them away. even a small amount of moisture can make those towels smell sour. and if a towel already has an odor, the institute says wash it on the hot cycle and add one

half cup of baking soda to your wash. so give that a try. >> all right. final question comes from richard in arlington. richard wants to know what's the difference between fruit spread like jams, jellies and preserves. >> if you're picking your own blackberries you want to know this. the juice product association gave us this answer. fda has developed a standard for jams, jellies and preserves. so a jelly is a mixture of fruit juice, sugar and sometimes pectin. just juice in that one. jam is a thick mixture of the fruit itself, sugar and often pectin. fruit in yam is cooked down and very soft. preserves almost identical to jam but they often have large chunks of fruit or whole fruit in them. so, yeah. jams, jellies and preserves. there's a difference. >> preserves closest to the real deal. >> jelly is the clearest. >> doreen, back to you. >> coming up a well-known police

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so one of the big questions today, could something have been done to prevent this tragedy in colorado? >> good question. dwayne stanton a detective with the metro poll tan police department here in d.c. he's now president and director of progressive security consultants where he works on high-profile and celebrity cases. it's clear there's a whole lot we still don't know about this suspect and exactly what happened. but based on what we do know you've got some ideas. >> unfortunately now is the point where the investigation actually starts. you have to start digging and probing into the background on

mr. holmes, his activities, his behavior and everything he's done not only over the past couple of days, weeks, months and even years. i'm of the opinion -- there's a couple of things. did mr. holmes have a complete mental breakdown. it's possible. the probability exists that mr. holmes has associated himself with a character in the batman movie. be it the ridler, the joker, or maybe even one of the s.w.a.t. members of the local police department. he was armed with body armor, helmet, goggles, gas masks, cs gas, weapons. it's all a part of his 15 minutes of fame, if you will. >> and you had pointed out earlier too that he was arrested without incident and that's important. >> that's very important because in most cases the perpetrator does what? suicide by police, he allows the

police to shoot him or he shoots himself. he didn't want that to happen in this particular case because he wanted to be here to tell his story. >> he wants to it play out. >> he wants to tell them not only did do i this, did i commit this crime my apartment is bobby trapped. you don't want to go there either. >> what are you thinking of when you see the police trying to go into this apartment. >> they have to be meticulous and bring in the experts of the experts. no question about it. >> speaking of meticulous, this is something that has been in the planning stages for perhaps months. >> at least. at least. this guy went out, i under he purchased weapons back in may. it takes a while to compile all this ammunition, all the materials needed. and the one thing i must say is, our tag line here in washington, d.c. is if you see something say something. that didn't happen. because someone somewhere saw mr. holmes making these

purchases and you know what they said? no big deal. >> not my business. >> not my business. hands off. unfortunately look at where we're at today. >> thank you for coming in. >> thank you for having me. >> we appreciate it. >> let's switch over to veronica with another check of the wet weather that's approaching. >> we're expecting more of it moving in, another wave later this evening between 8:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. it's not going to be nearly as bad as it was last night. the fact is with any thunderstorms that we do get and right now there are still some thunder with that line well to our west it could bring heavy rain and that means the possibility of flooding, it means the possibility of ponding on area roads and we could see once again streams and creeks rise out of their banks. take a look at storm 4 radar right now. showers around d.c. and annapolis, than bigger line off to the west again, just now getting into west virginia, in this got a few clusters of storms out ahead of that in eastern virginia. all of that between 8:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. so that by

tomorrow morning just some scattered light showers kind of exiting the area. but it's been cool, way cool today. temperature currently up in north in frederick, maryland, 72 degrees. gaithersburg at 72. greenbelt currently the temperature 77 degrees. we'll have a high tomorrow between 78 and about 81 degrees. so again on the cool side with the possibility of storms mainly down through the south because it's here that that weather boundary will be part for tomorrow. on one side of the system we're cool, we're showery with clouds. on the other side possibility of thunderstorms. then again on sunday could see some storms building out west around areas of i-81, shenandoah valley and down to the south. 50% chance of wet weather on saturday. 40% chance on sunday. high temperature of 76. sunday we get most of our sun. sun too next week with highs climbing in to the low to mid-90s. wednesday and thursday looking dry for next week. >> home daycare providers across

fairfax county are alarmed over a change in state policy that could force them to dramatically reduce the number of children they care for. but as julie carey they plan to head off a child care crisis. >> reporter: today kathy is caring for just two children at the lungy star's preschool academy located in the lower level of her lorton home. her state license allows her to care for up to 12 children. but a new state rule suddenly puts her daycare home and hundreds of others in jeopardy. it requires the providers make sure county zoning be officials are aware of the home business and a big disconnect was discovered. while the state allows 12 kids the county only allows seven though a special permit can raise that number to ten. >> a hardship for families who are doing this business because you need to keep a certain amount of numbers to make your

salary, to pay your assistants, basically to keep my business open. >> reporter: susan has operated her licensed daycare home for 12 years and she already has 12 children booked for fall including six babies. >> a lot of people we are going lose between six and two kids. and just the thought of like even telling their parents two of you will have to leave and then choosing the two how do you that? >> reporter: another worry, seeking the special permit to boost the number to ten is costly at $1100. several fairfax county supervisors including the board chairman had eased the uproar a bit by promising a grace period. the new rule won't be in force until possible changes can be examined and implemented and she hopes to match the county number to the state's. >> from my own personal point ever view i think raising the upper limit to 12 is an appropriate thing to do. the last thing we want to do is

to lose good child care providers. >> reporter: daycare providers will huddle with county officials at a town hall meeting on monday. coming up next on news 4 should a make-a-wish trip go a child who has beaten cancer? the disney world dispute is next. >> our coverage of the mass ♪

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angie gonzalez has more. >> reporter: for four years she's battled leukemia. now she's beat the disease but dealing with the sad effects. >> lost the ability to walk and talk. >> reporter: her mother and grandmother were told by hospital officials that she could qualify for a make-a-wish trip. >> her wish she wants to go disneyland. try to get her there. >> reporter: the only thing standing in her way a policy enforced by make a wish. >> their policy that both parents have to sign off. >> reporter: the dad admits he doesn't want his daughter to go. >> she's now cancer free. i wasn't completely comfortable with trip that they had set up. >> reporter: her father says now that she's cancer free they can taker later in life and when the family can pay for the trip themselves. >> i feel that make-a-wish's money, should actually go towards terminally ill children,

children that won't have the opportunity later on in life to experience things like disney world. >> so many donation have poured into the family the girl's mother and grandmother plan to take the 4-year-old to disney next month. nuclear program at 6:00 the tragedy in colorado. 1y 1y50. james egan holmes walked into the movie premier of "the dark night rises" and started shooting. >> clearly a deranged individual. had his hair painted red. said he was the joker. >> dozens were shot in colorado. the youngest victim was only 3 months old. >> i looked, that's when i saw ethan on the stairs and i'm thinking oh, my god and i grabbed him. at that moment i'm thinking i'm not going to die in